2y ago

Liftoff v0.9.18 Release - Bugs and Quality of Life!

Release v0.9.18 · liftoff-app/liftoff

Hey everyone! We have been blown away by the response to Liftoff and we really appreciate the support of the community. We're passionate about creating an app that we want to use and we're excited with the progress. There have been a ton of updates and bugfixes this week and we wanted to share the latest state of things

v0.9.18 Release

iOS:

TestFlight

Android:

GitHub
Play Store
F-Droid is coming
If you want to stay up to date with the latest releases before it gets on Play Store or F-Droid, checkout Obtainium

Changelog

Fixed issue where "Everything -> Subscribed" feed showed no posts
Added better compact view
Added Post Customization page in settings with live preview
Added ability to customize font size
Added ability to quickly toggle between card and compact view
Fixed mark as read not working, added mark all as read
Fixed issue with comment share link not being generated properly
Added Gesture Navigation (Thanks shocklateboy92!)
Added TOTP Login support (Thanks swmarks!)
Added animation configuration (Thanks johnc86!)

Known Issues (In progress)

There are a few bugs still that we're working through and we really appreciate all the support from the community helping us Beta test. Here are some of the known issues we're working on:

User and community link opening within the app is finicky #107
Separate default comment sort from default post sort
New sort in community page's posts sometimes not working properly
Unclear usage of everything feed causing seemingly duplicated posts across the difference instances.
Check here for a full list

Screenshots

52 comments

Y'all are doing really great work, and so goddamned quickly too. Jerboa won't even let me log in, much less navigate this easily.

Your app is awesome, many thanks. I'm missing only the possibility to change the main color, otherwise it has aöready everything I need.

I can easily see this becoming my new time sink once Boost dies in two days! Loving the app so far, very very impressive for such an early version. One thing I'd love to see (correct me if this is already possible) is having the refresh not only available at the top of the page. Having to scroll up for half a minute just to refresh is a bit tedious :D
- Yes this is coming!
  
  Much appreciated :)

Just installed the app and really like it so far. Keep up the great work!
I'd love to see the ability to hide read posts. I'm coming from baconreader and loved that feature.

I didn't see it on your list, but communities I have blocked are showing up on the frontpage when I have "all" selected.

Just installed it and loving it so far, it's great that we're getting options now.

Coming from Apollo (RIP and o7,) I love this app so far!

Love the app! One issue I'm having that is keeping me hopping back and forth between apps is download links don't work for me in the integrated browser. Could you possibly add the option to open in external browser?
- Yes that PR is open and this functionality will be in the next release

Do we have any notification of getting replies yet?
Using oled dark if that makes a difference
- Push notifications are on our to-do list
  
  I meant a notification in app, like a number next to the bell or it just changing colour.
  
  Will you implement UnifiedPush?

Everyday it gets harder to pick a lemmy app to use that isn't Jerboa. Lmfao. This is great! Atm im between this and Thunder.
I do have one issue i see wasn't fixed, but i believe someone has mentioned it. Which is I cannot see content if i go directly to an NSFW sub. It acts like there isnt anything there, but i know I'm able to as I can see it in the everything feed and subscribed feed.
- There's a few bugs around NSFW, I hadn't gotten to those yet but I will!

I was eager to try out Liftoff but unfortunately I can't seem to log in on it :/
I noticed my password contains a space in the middle and I always get an "invalid password" error.
I didn't try yet to change the password and try again but I suspect the password field when you login might not like a space in it.
In any case, if I can check if the password is really the issue, I will try to create a proper bug report on the git repository or something.
Thanks for the hard work ! It makes me happy to see devs embracing Lemmy and trying to make the best out of a pretty sad situation with reddit.
- Oh you might be on to something. There was a similar bug report but we thought it was their password length. It might be spaces. I'll take a lol. Thanks!

Just installed the app via the playstore. I needed to use the website to be able to access it.
BTW, rating can't be correct:

Content rating PEGI 18 • Extreme violence
I like how you can add multiple accounts and get an overview of all the subscribed channels in 1 view. Posting seems to be an issue yet, at least here with multiple acocunts. (probably pebkac issue, as it's less then an hour on the device)
- This I'm sure is due to the fact that people can upload nsfw posts, even though it can be moderated.
  Would love support here if any one has experience with the play store in this area

Love the new update! Are you guys considering adding post/comment text size adjustment as well (rather than just title/header)?
eta: It would also be great to be able to see the bottom navigation when viewing an instance/community page. The little autocorrect bubble is a bit wonky when writing comments as well.
- Yes please! came here to say the same thing. Default comments are a little too small

This is great work! Thank you so much for putting this together so quickly!
Do you plan to offer the option for tap to collapse comment rather than press& hold to collapse?

Are you gonna intergrate kbin ?

Great app devs.
Just one request. In compact view, it would be really cool if the post header appears left of the thumbnail. Right now it shows above the thumbnail and a lot of real estate is left open

Just installed it. Can't wait to try it out 😁

Any plans to add comment collapsing? Sorry, I'm new to the app, play store installed
Edit: jk, figured it out. Press and hold
- Tap to collapse will be in the next release

Can you do something about the size of the reply graphics? I'm talking about the green, orange, etc line that appears next to a comment when it is a reply. They're so narrow and the green one starts at the edge of the screen, making it almost invisible.

I keep getting a message like this whenever I try to interact with or subscribe to a community outside of lemmy.world. I'm easily able to do this in other apps like Thunder. What do I need to do differently? "This thread was retrieved via lemmy.ml. You are not logged in there."
Everyone says Liftoff is one of the best apps but I find it unusable as I can't interact with any other federation.

Testing mentions /u/zachatrocity@lemmy.world

Hiya, thanks for the app, my favourite so far! One QOL I'd like to suggest is a left-handed card view, where the image or content is displayed on the left side of the card instead of the right. So my fellow left-handed friends can navigate a lil' easier. Thanks!

Awesome release loving the app!
Edit: I downloaded, the app from the app store, It seem to crash a lot when logged in, I wonder if its related to the instance Im logged in, currently using lemmy.world.
- Shouldn't be. Many of us, myself included are using lemmy.world and liftoff as a daily driver.
  
  Strange, been trying out a lot of stuff, using 0.9.18 and its just crashes for me everytime I visit the first page. I did observe that it seem to work fine if viewing directly a community when logged in, I gave up for now, I think it has something to do with the lemmy 0.18 update perhaps it will fix it self once lemmy.world gets updated to 0.18 or so.
  
  Found out it was a lemmy.world issue. I had a lemmy.ml account tried logging in with it and that seem to fixed the problem. I guess it is related to the switch to http which happen in lemmy 0.18 while lemmy.world is still in 0.17.
  Edit: While still using lemmy.world account, some observation I saw, It seem to crash only when viewing the first screen you encounter when opening the app, if you wait long enough there. If viewing directly to a community it works just fine.

Trying to log in with lemme.ee, having issues. It tells me it can't find the instance.

- This leverages an abandoned foundation called lemmur. Those original open source devs laid a great foundation
  We're keeping the Foss dream alive

Loving the app so far! Curious if there is a way to comment on different instances without having an account?
- Access it through your login's instance. Use the instance -> all view instead of the everything -> all
  
  I feel dumb for not even thinking that. Thanks!

I've got one suggestion so far and it's adding "block community" below "block user" when pulling up that menu on a post

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